New Camera!

With the money that I got for my birthday and Christmas, I decided to take the plunge and buy myself a new camera. The one I currently have... well, I don't use it for anything anymore; if I need a camera I tended to use my mum's. It's a terrible, cheap little Nikon Coolpix that has been held together with gaffer tape for the last four years because the compartment containing the memory card broke and it would have cost more to fix it than to buy a new camera! You can see it in all its gaffer-taped glory below, courtesy of my friend Rhiannon:

This is a massively old photo, taken in South Africa August 2011, but there. My old camera.

My new camera, on the other hand, is utterly beautiful. It's a Fujifilm X30 and I love it so much. After many agonizing hours of research on the internet, I decided that this was the best camera for me; all the reviews compared it in terms of quality to far more expensive cameras, so in my price range it didn't seem like much else matched the Fuji.

Since I got it, my feelings have been confirmed! It's a beautiful camera; pretty chunky, but I always carry all my stuff in a shoulder bag anyway so it's not essential for me that it fits in my pocket. And because a picture tells a thousand words or something, here's a few shots I've taken with it.

All photos are unedited, mostly because I haven't got round to pirating installing Photoshop on my laptop yet.

In conclusion, 10/10 WOULD RECOMMEND. This camera is lovely. My only complaint about it is that I ended up taking some pictures in RAW format that wouldn't upload onto my computer, and they're now stuck on my camera, because it appears to be the default format. Customer support has so far been unhelpful...